Andy Carvin
Former managing editor and director of research, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, occasional conlanger, #ActuallyADHD, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.
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- After a period of reflection I am changing my full name, Carvin, back to Andy Carvin. To paraphrase David Zaslav, this evolution has been influenced by changing consumer needs, and the fact that no consumer today is saying they want more Carvin, but most consumers are saying they want better Carvin.
- Wait wasn't this a plot line on Ozark
- Trump Cut Deal To Let *Sinaloa Cartel Members* Into US apnews.com/article/el-c...
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- "Thirty minutes into Wednesday’s Warner Bros. Discovery upfront, Bloys revealed the name change to media buyers. The news was met with laughter, light applause and exactly one whistle."
- Reposted by Andy CarvinI literally made this joke throughout Trump’s first term: that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi could have avoided being killed by the US if he’d offered to build a Trump Tower in Raqqa. I was joking. And yet:
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- Reposted by Andy CarvinNPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
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- Reposted by Andy CarvinMujica was a shining light. When Syrian immigrants came to Uruguay, he gave them the Presidential palace to live in. Why? Because he kept living in his own home, drove his old car, and always led with kindness.
- Reposted by Andy CarvinPeople are still yelling at me and trying to defend Piker's decision to chat away with CBP so I wrote about the myriad ways it was stupid.
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- Reposted by Andy CarvinThe Broligarchy gets what it paid for. Trump fired the top US copyright official Shira Perlmutter, and it appears directly linked to her office's new AI report questioning unlimited harvesting of copyrighted materials, which is not what they wanted to hear. www.linkedin.com/posts/radsch...
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- Reposted by Andy Carvin1. As many people learned this morning, the National Park Service prohibits swimming and wading in the water in Rock Creek due to oil, heavy metals, pesticides, pet waste, and raw sewage in the water.
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- Reposted by Andy CarvinThe Afrikaner stunt is the kind of thing that has backfired so far -- it creates legal arguments for other refugees about animus. But holy hell he's not hiding the white sheets.
- Son to daughter this morning: "Bro, Les Mis is what made me hip to class consciousness."
- Reposted by Andy Carvin1/2 Just-dismissed Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, has a PhD from U Chicago, is in numerous scholarly societies, has wide acclaim. She is also first African-American to lead LoC. The dismissal note did not say "Dear Dr. Hayden" or "Dear Madame Librarian" or even "Dear Carla."
- Reposted by Andy CarvinThis has been the defining trait of my career over the last 20 years, working in tech. Everyone can see it now, because they’ve seen the corruption of the tech tycoons, but we had the first view of their venality, and watched as they ruined the lives of so many who raised the alarms about it.
- aka the scallion stallions
- Reposted by Andy CarvinExcellent piece on Miller on habeas. Far superior to the surprisingly both-sides-ish coverage by some media. What Miller is claiming the power to do isn’t questionable or dubious. It would be anti-constitutional usurpation. www.stevevladeck.com/p/148-suspen...
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- Reposted by Andy CarvinThis isn’t a good idea even if the plane was being donated to the U.S. government. But Trump GETS TO KEEP THE PLANE??? It’s simply a cash payment to Trump in exchange for favors. Just wildly illegal.
- Reposted by Andy CarvinIf they suspend Habeas Corpus, it won't just be for "migrants" or "illegals" or "criminals." If they suspend Habeas Corpus it will be for you and me and whomever this regime decides is unfit, undesirable, and a threat or a problem. This is how it works. This is how it's always worked.
- Reposted by Andy CarvinJust amazing: Trump grew angry over a Biden-era program with the word "equity" in its name, so he ended it. But a key part of the program was sending money to red states to expand internet access in rural/MAGA country. Now they might not get it. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1950...
- Reposted by Andy CarvinWell, without an ankle monitor, what is to stop her from co-authoring another op-ed? 
- Reposted by Andy CarvinTwo more sweet photos of Rümeysa Öztürk courtesy of her legal team. That's her attorney Mahsa Khanbabai on the right.
- Reposted by Andy CarvinREAD. THE. SUBHEAD.
- Reposted by Andy CarvinThe 16-year-old was dragged away and arrested by Worcester PD because she kicked the car ICE was holding her mother in as her mom was taken away. The day earlier, ICE had taken her dad as well.
- "She told MassLive that she, along with a crowd of other people, asked ICE to show a warrant for the arrest. She said the agents replied, 'We don’t have to show you anything.'" www.masslive.com/worcester/20...
- Reposted by Andy CarvinThe reporters' suspensions have just been lifted, which is a relief. But still, an absolute disgrace that Columbia/Barnard put reporters — who clearly identified themselves as such throughout the protest — through this.
- Looking at this pic of the new pope meeting John Paul II decades ago, I keep wondering if anyone in the conclave explicitly invoked the need for a pope who could stand up to MAGA policies as the first US pope in the same way John Paul II stood up to communism as the first Polish pope.
- Reposted by Andy Carvinwho called it woke pope and not Opus DEI
- Reposted by Andy CarvinThe Trump administration's actions toward some news outlets "paint a really alarming picture of deteriorating media freedom in the U.S.," says Katherine Jacobsen of the Committee to Protect Journalists. By @obedmanuel.bsky.social and @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Andy CarvinGenuinely has anyone *ever* been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you
- Reposted by Andy CarvinA Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
- They hated Illinois Nazis as well.
- OK, so @drprevost has a blue checkmark on Twitter, which no longer means verified in the authenticated sense of the word. Is there any evidence he was previously verified before Elon turned the system upside down?
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- Reposted by Andy Carvin🚨BREAKING: Three judge panel with 2 Trump appointees STRIKES DOWN Alabama congressional map for violating Constitution and VRA. Court finds Alabama INTENTIONALLY discriminated against Black voters. Proud of ELG team and our clients in this historic fight! www.democracydocket.com/cases/alabam...
- Reposted by Andy CarvinThey didn't pick Cardinal Pizzaballa because his dish wasn't deep enough
- Change the entire concept of a TV show by altering one letter: Chicago Pope
- Reposted by Andy CarvinSo “Trump” just made a “deal” with “Britain.” Trying to emulate his style, with random quotation marks. I GUESS I SHOULD ALSO INCLUDE A SENTENCE IN BLOCK CAPS. Anyway, the deal was almost substance-free. The goal of policy seems to be to goose the market for a few days, with no long-term plan.
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- Habemus Solem!
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- Habemus murem!
- It's more of a sir-yes-sir Congress than a do-nothing Congress per se
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- Reposted by Andy CarvinQuite an exchange just now between Sen. Merkley and FBI Director Kash Patel over whether due process applies to people targeted by the Alien Enemies Act.
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- Reposted by Andy CarvinSpot on by Bill Gates. I knew he thought this but am glad he finally said it publicly. He has put up with such shitty misinformation from Musk over vaccines too.
- Reposted by Andy CarvinFirst-term Donald Trump credited George Washington's army for seizing airports from the British. Second-term Donald Trump claims Iwo Jima is in Europe.
- "They [newsrooms] didn't lose their revenues; they were stolen," notes @courtneyr.bsky.social at #AIJournalismHH regarding the Google adtech illegal monopoly ruling.
- For those of you attending #AIJournalismHH and can't follow the hearing live, @willoremus.com is live-skeeting it.
- This is how you billionaire properly.
- Bill Gates said the world's poorest would receive some $200 billion via his foundation as he pledged to give away almost his entire personal wealth in the next two decades, at a time when governments worldwide are slashing international aid reut.rs/3StcPn2
- Reposted by Andy CarvinNEW: President Trump's policies and actions have been stopped by US courts more than 200 times. We've been tracking lawsuits from the moment he was sworn in, identifying at least 320+ by the start of May -- and more keep coming. A deep, deep dive into the data: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
- Reposted by Andy CarvinElon Musk sues Canada bc he got treated like DOGE treats environmental contracts.
- Tesla threatening to sue Canada over EV credit money that was frozen after the automaker drained the program over a single weekend www.blogto.com/tech/2025/05...
